Death, dying, and grief has become all the more real during this global pandemic … and still, very few of us are prepared to talk about it. Now, former hospital chaplain and “grief guru” Dana Trent offers a way to make talking about death and …
The unfurling of COVID-19 narratives have taught us that death is a conversation that applies to all of us. The question is, who will be courageous enough to name that?
In her classroom, Trent, a 38-year-old writer, interfaith minister and instructor at Wake Technical Community College, returns to again and again in the classroom: How do you understand the meaning of life and death? And, more urgently, how do you grieve?
I had distinct the honor of holding space for and with Paul Samuel Dolman as we discussed the recent loss of his mother, Eileen. Listen here as we dive deeply into what the first few weeks of being an “adult orphan” look like, as well …
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My mother was a staunch observer of sabbath. It took her death for me to appreciate why. Read my latest for The Christian Century.